Reply to: Do you agree...

[Paddy]

If a terrorist wants to send a message it is easy to encrypt it, even a five year old could do it.
Message on a jpeg made into a text file and then split and sent in sections along with other junk. Impossible to crack.

[original PM]

How did doggy post from 1982?

[Churchill]

Yes, I do agree.

Nobody here can know that we don't need this, because nobody here is doing that work. And if they were, they wouldn't be opining about it on here.

Surely it's fixing a symptom and not the underlying problem...

[Doggy Styles]

...with the following statement?

Yes, I do agree.

Nobody here can know that we don't need this, because nobody here is doing that work. And if they were, they wouldn't be opining about it on here.

[DirtyDog]

If you want an even more accurate prediction about state surveillance, watch Senator Frank Church on Meet The Press from August 1975:

[America’s intelligence gathering] capability at any time could be turned around on the American people and no American would have any privacy left. Such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide.

If this government ever became a tyrant, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology.

I don’t want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that [the NSA] and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.

[eek]

Look what I dug up. Before Snowden too...

[Churchill]

Look what I dug up. Before Snowden too...

[Churchill]

At least if it's a developer role, you have the chance to bring the system down from within

I spent a while umming and ahing about whether to take the role or not, and decided that I would end up unhappy with what I was doing, so turned it down. One of the reasons I don't work for a large consultancy any more is that I didn't want to be forced into working on projects like that.

I should fit right in, I'm a nosey bastard who thinks Google-Earth is a wonderful voyeuristic tool...

[TheFaQQer]

That's what's going through my mind. It's a developer role.

At least if it's a developer role, you have the chance to bring the system down from within

I spent a while umming and ahing about whether to take the role or not, and decided that I would end up unhappy with what I was doing, so turned it down. One of the reasons I don't work for a large consultancy any more is that I didn't want to be forced into working on projects like that.

[Churchill]

You lot have taught me well in the ways of geekiness, surfing for porn and contracting

FTFY!

[cailin maith]

We'll make a contractor of you yet

You lot have taught me well in the ways of geekiness and contracting

[TheFaQQer]

Who cares - it's going to be done by someone anyway?

We'll make a contractor of you yet

It's a matter of individual choice - when I found out who the client was (they were more than a little secretive about exactly who they were and what they did), I wasn't interested in the role at all. It just didn't square with my conscience, and I wanted no part of it.

Just because someone is going to be doing it, doesn't mean that I should compromise what I believe in.

[Churchill]

Anything like this job then?

Nope - purely a role. I did some comms stuff a few years ago that a couple of companies appear to be interested in at the moment.

[darmstadt]

Anything like this job then?

[Churchill]

No.

But a job's a job...

Yeah, I know - as a certain person has said. It's not just you now!